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Page 1: Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy Imitations ... adaptations... · Tristram’s story begins ‘ab ovo’ ‘I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they

Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy:

Imitations, Illustrations,

Adaptations

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Laurence Sterne

by Joshua Reynolds, 1760

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Jesus College, Cambridge,1730s

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Shandy Hall, Coxwold, Yorkshire

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1759: Sterne turns to fiction-writing

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Tristram Shandy volumes 1&2:

published York 1759, London 1760

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What’s Tristram Shandy ‘about’?

‘the great humour of [Tristram Shandy] consists in the whole narration always going backwards’

(Horace Walpole)

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Tristram’s story begins ‘ab ovo’

‘I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me….’.

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Tristram’s conception, clock-winding and

John Locke’s association of ideas

Mrs Shandy:

‘Pray, my dear … have you not forgot to wind up the clock?’

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‘Life’ and/or ‘opinions’?

‘A history of what passes in a man’s own mind’.

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A cast of eccentric characters

Tristram Shandy (the narrator)

Walter Shandy

Uncle Toby

Corporal Trim

Parson Yorick

Mrs Wadman

(‘the Widow’)

Dr Slop

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Humour and Typography: ‘That dashite Sterne’

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Asterisks: Uncle Toby’s ‘four stars’

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Visual features: black pages

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Marbled Pages: ‘motley emblem of my work!’

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1769

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1780

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1782

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1783

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Tristram’s ‘narrative lines’

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Success and Response On everybody’s lips

‘Who is more thought of, heard of, talked of, by dukes, dutchesses, lords, ladies, earls,

marquises, countesses, and common whores, than Tristram Shandy?’

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What were people saying?

‘humorous’ ‘unaccountable’ ‘ridiculous’

‘excellent’ ‘insipid’ ‘gross’

‘eccentric’ ‘immodest’ ‘original’

‘wicked’ ‘rare’ ‘odd’

‘tedious’ ‘striking’ ‘ingenious’

‘entertaining’ ‘singular’ ‘bawdy’

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John Kidgell, The Card (1755)

Is Tristram Shandy ‘original’?

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Sterne befriends the rich and famous

William Hogarth, David Garrick as Richard III

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Sterne/Tristram becomes a celebrity

Sterne: ‘I Shandy it away…’.

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The Sermons of Mr Yorick [i.e. Sterne], 1760

‘the greatest outrage against Sense and Decency … since the first establishment of Christianity’

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Success breeds creativity

Tristram Shandy’s serial publication: nine volumes, 1759-1767

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Confound the critics ‘Genius may be

exhausted – I see that

Folly’s invention may

be so too’.

(Horace Walpole)

‘Tristram Shandy

did not last’

(Samuel Johnson)

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‘Nobody speaks now but in the Shandean style’: creative responses to

Tristram Shandy

Imitative pamphlets,

1760 onwards

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‘High Life at Noon’, 1769

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Imitating Shandean bawdry

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‘The Four Stars’ ….‘Wind up the Clock’

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The ‘afterlives’ of Sterne’s characters

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Title for dance setting, 1760

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Continuations and Sequels

Spurious ‘volume IX’, 1766

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Just attention-grabbing?

George Stayley, The Life and Opinions of an Actor, 1762

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Tristram Shandy’s Illustrations:

Books, Prints, Paintings

William Hogarth’s ‘witty

chissel’, 1760

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Tristram’s baptism and misnaming

‘Melancholy

disyllable of sound!’

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Popular Themes: Tristram’s Uncle Toby

Henry William Bunbury,1773

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Robert Dighton, 1785

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Clark, 1820

Nigel Lambourne, 1970

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C. R. Leslie, ‘Uncle Toby and Widow Wadman’, 1830s

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Dramatic Adaptations Tristram Shandy: A Sentimental, Shandean Bagatelle

Covent Garden, 1783

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‘Shandean’ and ‘Sentimental’? Tristram Shandy and Sensibility

‘The Death of Le Fever’ ‘Maria, Moulines’

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A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, By Mr Yorick (1768)

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‘Travelling for the heart’ and ‘Touching Encounters’

‘Parson Yorick’ visits Tristram Shandy’s Maria

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A Sentimental Journey’s Adaptations:

An International Success

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Maria: In Illustration, Poems, Songs

Angelica Kauffman, ‘Maria’

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Alternative Visualisations:

John Doyle,

‘A Study for Sterne’s Maria’, 1833

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James Gillray, 1790

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Adaptations: Twentieth Century Onwards

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Martin Rowson’s

graphic novel of Tristram

Shandy, 1996

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Tristram Shandy on film

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Tristram Shandy’s ‘final’ punch-line?


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